[K12OSN] K12LTSP RHEL 5 64 Bit Install Errors

[Terrell Prude' Jr.]

Here's another one.  This is Red Hat's own documentation and what I 
myself used to learn how to do it.  Again, Google was my friend.

--TP

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/ch-guimode-x86.html

Moon wrote:
> Hadn't tried the network install from a DVD image. To be honest, I have
> never done an install that way. I had been using Edubuntu in a local school
> I provide free support to. The Edubuntu LTSP server v7.10 has never been
> very robust and seems to perform slowly since I set it up last fall. I tried
> upgrading to the Edubuntu LTSP server 8.04.1 version recently but found
> additional networking issues as well as other items that cropped up since
> they changed from LTSP 4.2 base to the newer 5.0 platform. I decided to dump
> Edubuntu LTSP server and go with K12LTSP, but now have run into this problem
> with the 64 bit images. I will look into network install of the DVD as soon
> as I can figure it out. Right now I have to go ahead and get the server back
> up by tomorrow afternoon as there will be a special class offered on
> OpenOffice.org then. If you have any documentation or a link to point me to
> for the network install procedure it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I have to say, I never got this quick of a response
> before in any of the Ubuntu forums, especially related to Edubuntu LTSP.
>
> Thank again
>
> Charlie 
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terrell Prude' Jr. [mailto:microman at cmosnetworks.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 11:38 PM
> To: moon at smbis.com; Support list for open source software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] K12LTSP RHEL 5 64 Bit Install Errors
>
> Moon wrote:
>   
>> Hello, I downloaded both the K12LTSP 5EL 64bit CDs and 64bit DVD. 
>> First, the K12LTSP 5EL 64bit DVD will not burn using CentOS 5.2 or 
>> using MagicISO or Nero on WinXP platform. The file is simply too 
>> large. I then tried installing using the 8 K12LTSP 5EL 64bit CDs on an 
>> ABIT AV8 AMD Athlon 64 3700+ based school server. The installation 
>> terminates after running through disk 8 with no discernable error 
>> message other than there was an error and gives me a reboot button.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have used this same hardware platform to run 64bit CentOS 5.2 
>> workstation and server previously. I then installed K12LTSP 5EL 32bit 
>> using the DVD with success.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Can you advise if there will be an updated K12LTSP 5EL 64bit CDs and 
>> 64bit DVD to correct these issues?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Please advise.
>>
>>     
>
> Have you tried doing network installs from that 64-bit DVD image?  My 
> preferred method is to use either NFS or FTP installs.  Way faster than 
> CD's or even DVD's if you're on 100Mbps.
>
> --TP
>
>   

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